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Synonyms for increase
ɪnˈkris; ˈɪn krisin·crease
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
increase
To add is to increase by adjoining or uniting: in distinction from multiply, which is to increase by repeating. To augment a thing is to increase it by any means, but this word is seldom used directly of material objects; we do not augment a house, a farm, a nation, etc. We may enlarge a house, a farm, or an empire, extend influence or dominion, augment riches, power or influence, attach or annex a building to one that it adjoins or papers to the document they refer to, annex a clause or a codicil, affix a seal or a signature, annex a territory, attach a condition to a promise. A speaker may amplify a discourse by a fuller treatment throughout than was originally planned, or he may append or subjoin certain remarks without change of what has gone before. We cast up or sum up an account, though add up and make up are now more usual expressions.
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add, adjoin, affix, amplify, annex, append, attach, augment, cast up, enlarge, extend, join on, make up, subjoin, sum upAntonyms:
abstract, deduct, diminish, dissever, lessen, reduce, remove, subtract, withdrawPreposition:
Other items are to be added to the account.
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Princeton's WordNet
addition, increase, gainnoun
a quantity that is added
"there was an addition to property taxes this year"; "they recorded the cattle's gain in weight over a period of weeks"
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add-on, profit, improver, summation, amplification, growth, increment, addition, accession, step-up, plus, gainAntonyms:
lessening, diminution, decrement, drop-off, reduction, decrease, step-down, diminish, lessen, fall, minifyincreasenoun
a change resulting in an increase
"the increase is scheduled for next month"
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addition, increment, gain, step-up, growthAntonyms:
decrease, decrement, reduction, step-down, lessening, diminution, drop-off, lessen, fall, minify, diminishincrease, increment, growthnoun
a process of becoming larger or longer or more numerous or more important
"the increase in unemployment"; "the growth of population"
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ontogenesis, gain, growth, emergence, growing, addition, ontogeny, development, maturation, increment, outgrowth, step-upAntonyms:
drop-off, decrease, reduction, decrement, step-down, lessening, diminution, diminish, fall, lessen, minifyincrease, incrementnoun
the amount by which something increases
"they proposed an increase of 15 percent in the fare"
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addition, increment, gain, step-up, growthAntonyms:
decrease, decrement, reduction, diminution, step-down, drop-off, lessening, diminish, fall, lessen, minifyincrease, step-upverb
the act of increasing something
"he gave me an increase in salary"
Synonyms:
addition, increment, gain, step-up, growthAntonyms:
lessening, decrease, step-down, decrement, diminution, reduction, drop-off, fall, minify, lessen, diminishincreaseverb
become bigger or greater in amount
"The amount of work increased"
Antonyms:
decrement, diminution, step-down, decrease, reduction, lessening, drop-off, lessen, fall, minify, diminishincreaseverb
make bigger or more
"The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted"
Antonyms:
step-down, drop-off, decrement, decrease, diminution, lessening, reduction, minify, lessen, fall, diminish
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increaseverb
Synonyms:
grow, augment, be augmented, become greater or largerincreaseverb
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multiply, be fruitfulincreaseverb
Synonyms:
augment, enlarge, make greater, make largerincreaseverb
increaseverb
increaseverb
increasenoun
Synonyms:
augmentation, enlargement, extension, expansion, growth, addition, accession, incrementincreasenoun
increasenoun
Synonyms:
offspring, issue, progeny, descendants
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
increasenoun
Synonyms:
augmentation, accretion, increment, accession, amplification, addition, accrumentincreaseverb
Synonyms:
augment, advance, enlarge, multiply, be prolific, wax, aggravate, enhance, extend, augment, intensify, exacerbate, amplify, magnify, heighten, accelerate
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "increase":
rise, increasing, increased, enhance, growth, raise, increases, improve, grow, strengthen, increment, expand, augment, enhancing, boost, raising, surge, intensify, augmentation, growing, expansion, strengthening, rising, enhancement, improving, greater, upsurge, heighten, reinforce, enhanced, progression, broaden, improvement, escalation, 'augmentation, extend, hike, further, more, expanding, redouble, intensification, higher, additional, augmenting, mark-up, build, widen, add, enlarge, rises, multiply
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How to use increase in a sentence?
With the headline news earlier this week, it looked like December was more likely for a rate increase but any resolution to the Greece crisis will mean that September is back on the table.
Rain volume during 2016 will increase, causing floods and landslides.
Global LNG is expected to increase. We also believe in it and it will be an important complementary gas source.
Increase in goodness as long as thou art here, that, when thou departest, in that thou mayest still be joyful. According to our words and deeds in this life will be the remembrance of us in the world.
The Postal Service has seen issues with staffing availability arise in the identified Districts due to the COVID-19 pandemic, among other reasons, at the same time that staffing unavailability has become a factor, there has been an increase volume in package and market dominant products.
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